Biographical Information
Steve Papa, chairman and founder of Endeca, started the company in 1999 to help all people overcome information overload. Under Papa's leadership, the company has rapidly become a leading provider of innovative information access and analysis software solutions to the Global 2000. Today, Endeca's marquee customer base includes organizations like Bank of America, Barnes & Noble, Boston Scientific, Classmates.com, NASA, IBM, The Home Depot, Harvard Business School, The Library of Congress, Putnam Investments, Texas Instruments, Wal-Mart and Zagat Survey. Before starting Endeca, Papa was an early employee at the search engine company Inktomi, where he worked with unstructured data on a massive scale, and before that, at the data warehouse company Teradata, where he worked on structured data also on a massive scale.
Articles by Steve Papa
The Faceted Navigation and Search Revolution
23 Mar 2006
You’ve likely heard the buzz by now: faceted navigation truly changes the ground rules for search and KM, and for the many related applications...
A Primer on Structured vs. Unstructured Search
01 Oct 2005
If you search for a monkey in the jungle, it’s tougher than finding one at the zoo, and if you
search for unstructured content, it’s tougher than finding structured content. Completely
different search technologies specialize in one or the other, but many technologies now say
they search both. That’s why if you’re researching new search solutions, you’re going to
hear about the difference between structured and unstructured information, and it’s going
to get confusing, because those definitions have evolved over time . . . .
A Primer on Faceted Navigation and Guided Navigation
01 Nov 2004